3/8/2006, 10:27 p.m. ET
By SAMUEL MAULL The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — The lawyer for a Dutch youth
questioned in the disappearance of a young
Alabama woman in Aruba moved on Wednesday
to dismiss a lawsuit filed by her parents.
Attorney Joseph Tacopina filed papers on behalf of
Joran van der Sloot and his father, saying the lawsuit,
which was filed in Manhattan, should be thrown out
because the case has no connection to New York.
State Supreme Court Justice Barbara Kapnick agreed
to hear arguments on the motion on May 17.
Natalee Holloway, 18, was last seen May 30 leaving
a bar on the Dutch island with van der Sloot and
two friends. Her body has not been found and no
one has been charged.
Last month, Holloway's parents sued Van der Sloot and
his father, Paulus, for unspecified money damages in
connection with her disappearance.
Elizabeth Ann Twitty, of Alabama, and Dave Edward
Holloway, of Mississippi, say Joran van der Sloot
imprisoned and sexually assaulted their daughter
and was responsible for her disappearance.
The van der Sloots were served with a summons
while in New York, where the son gave television
interviews about the case.
Tacopina's motion papers say the van der Sloots
deny the allegations.
"My clients and I are sympathetic to the fact the
plaintiffs do not know the present whereabouts of
their daughter,"
Tacopina said in the papers. However, he says,
"neither the plaintiffs' hardship nor the vast media
attention" this case has attracted "should serve to
prevent the proper dismissal of this case."
The papers say Aruban law must be applied to the
case.
Joran van der Sloot and brothers Deepak Kalpoe, 21,
and Satish Kalpoe, 18 were arrested June 9 on
suspicion of involvement in Holloway's disappearance.
Joran Van der Sloot admitted he was with the teen but
denied any wrongdoing.
All were released.
Tacopina said Joran van der Sloot had returned to
school in Holland and his father was home in Aruba.
A lawyer for the Holloway family did not return calls for
comment.
Its time to pay the piper!
We will not give up the chase!!!
link:
http://www.al.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/
national-60/1141875611214460.xml&storylist=missinggirl
Here is the reply from Jorans
lawyer regarding
the law suit:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~dugo/doc2.pdf
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